What's the difference between inca and quipu?

Inca


Definition:

  • (n.) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun.
  • (n.) The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.

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  • (1) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
  • (2) Our proposal is based on the observation that incA can bind to a RepA-origin complex in vitro.
  • (3) The region which determines sensitivity to the IncA determinant seems to overlap with the region specifying the IncA determinant.
  • (4) On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru.
  • (5) We propose that incA, in addition to sequestration, can also restrain replication by causing steric hindrance to the origin function.
  • (6) On the other hand, sera from the INCA patients were reactive with the peptides no.
  • (7) The leaf, which was sacred in the days of the Incas, has long been highly valued by people living in the Andes, on account of its nutritional and medicinal qualities.
  • (8) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
  • (9) We show that one repeat sequence is sufficient to bind RepA and can reduce the copy number of incA-deleted plasmids.
  • (10) Health Inca Tea ingestion should be considered when interpreting urinary BE concentrations.
  • (11) Rather, the incA sequences appear to block the origin by direct contact in a plasmid-plasmid pairing event.
  • (12) The widely-held belief that Columbus's ship brought the disease from the New World to Europe rests on identification of the classic lesions in Inca, Aztec and Mississippian bones that date from 1,000 to 3,000 years before present.
  • (13) Occasionally there are multiple ossification centers in the interparietal bone which fail to fuse, resulting in one of several varieties of os incae.
  • (14) In the ancient Peru, particularly in the Inca Empire, the review of alcohol use and abuse must be made according to the ethnohistorical and cultural context with special emphasis on ideological and customary aspects.
  • (15) A possibility that a small anti-sense RNA is involved in copy number control and incompatibility (IncA function) was suggested.
  • (16) But if any archaeological evidence exists for Choquequirao as a “last refuge of the Incas”, it’s lost beneath the jungle.
  • (17) • Doubles from $80 B&B, +51 84 222237, andenesalcielo.com Rumi Punku, Cusco Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Cusco’s picturesque Choquecheca Street, this hotel is built on an old Inca temple site and is entered via an ancient stone doorway ( rumi punku is Quechua for stone door).
  • (18) The expression of the trans-acting factor(s) specifically required for replication of ColE2 interferes with expression of the IncA determinant against ColE2 but not against ColE3.
  • (19) When both the origin and the incA locus are present on one plasmid, trans contacts with daughter molecules appear to predominate over cis looping.
  • (20) A 2003 Rodale article describes its cultural place in the Andean highlands, an area that encompasses parts of Bolivia , Peru, and Ecuador: Quinoa (pronounced keen-wá), a seed grain, has been cultivated in the Andean region for over 7,000 years and was considered sacred by the Inca Empire.

Quipu


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events.

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